I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.

I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.

The street finds its own uses for things.

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.